Free Backlinks, Online Promotion, and Websites that Pay You to Write

Backlinks are one of the most important things for any webpage to be successful. Finding quality sites where you can gain free backlinks is simpler than you may think.

Here are some quality, easy to use sites where you can backlink to your articles, blog, or website.

Some are sites that allow user to share links with the rest of the site community. Other sites pay you to write or upload content. With hard work and dedication, you can make money with these sites.

Use these sites to gain an online presence and promote your main site. While you are doing that, you may find these websites can be profitable for you as well.

**Quick Tip**

Be sure to fill out your user profiles for any site you join.

Most sites allow you to add outside links in your member profile. Think of it as another free backlink.

Authorsden.com is a site where authors can promote their work. Authors have a “den” for biographical information, news, and information about their works including a place to post links and information about articles. The site offers a free membership as well as other levels of paid membership that offer more space, promotion, and other benefits such as being a featured author on the site.

Digg is a site that allows you to add links to content and a brief description. Your “digg” is shared with the rest of the community. Other people can vote up your content and share it via Facebook and Twitter. If your link gets enough votes, it makes it to the front page of the site. Many sites have Digg widgets and buttons that allow you to easily share content through the site.

Helium.com is a great resource for writers.  They pay people to write articles and help writers connect with other freelance writing jobs posted on the site’s marketplace.  Helium also offers writing contests with cash prizes.  Articles on the site are reviewed by other writers and are assigned a rating.        

This site, HubPages, is a great site for writing articles called “hubs.” Creating a hub is very simple. Capsules are added to the article and the author adds content to the capsules. Pictures, links, videos, maps, polls, RSS, and more can be added to each hub. The author gets paid from AdSense, Amazon, Ebay, and Kontera ads that can be placed within the article. The site splits the earnings with the author. The author gets 60% of the ad revenue. The author also receives 10% from any referrals. There are plenty of opportunities to interact with the HubPages community including a forum.

Reddit it is a site to submit links and a brief description to the site community.  Like similar sites, users vote the content either up or down.  The most interesting content finds its way to the front page of the site.  Users gain “karma” points when they are active on the site, especially by submitting links.    

Redgage.com is site that pays you for views on any online content that you upload to their site. You can add links to other websites, pictures, videos, blogs, and documents. You earn money when other people view the content you have uploaded. So, you get free backlinks and promotion for other sites as well as earning money from Redgage for views. Bonuses are also given if some of your content is featured.

With SheToldMe, you can submit content such as an article, video, or picture.  You add the link, a brief description, and tag the content.  Other users vote on the submission.  If your content earns enough votes, it makes it to the front page of the site.  You can also earn money through Google AdSense ads that automatically appear on your content pages.   

Squidoo.com is a site where you can publish “lenses,” which are articles or overviews on any topic. The site donates 5% of the money they earn from advertisements to charities and uses 45% for their costs. The author of the lens gets a share of the other 50% and can choose to donate it to charity as well. Users are paid through PayPal.  The site has easy tools to create lenses and to add links to products on sites like Amazon and Ebay. You can also add links to your favorite websites on your Squidoo profile page. It’s a simple way to get backlinks to your other sites.

StumbleUpon is similar to a search engine except it is personalizes according to the user.  It is a great way to get backlinks for your site.  All you need to do is create an account and surf the web.  You can rate sites and write reviews or you can simply give a thumbs up or a thumbs down.  You can “discover” your own site and add it to StumbleUpon.  This gives your site or article a chance to be viewed by other Stumblers surfing the web.      

Xomba is a website where you get paid to write articles.  You make money through AdSense ads.  The revenue is split 60/40 between the user and the site.  The site also offers contests where you can win cash or prizes.  If you aren’t interested in writing articles, you can make Bookmarks, which are basically links that are shared with the Xomba community.   

YouSayToo is mainly for bloggers. You can use the site to promote your blog. You add links to your blog on the site. Then add a reciprocal backlink on your blog.

I get about 30-50 hits a day from the site. If you are really active on the site, you can get even more traffic and more followers.

You can also write blog posts just for YouSayToo. These will get traffic from inside the site as well as search engine traffic. You earn AdSense and Infolinks revenue from any blog you add to the site.